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Kinda OT - but I'm beginning to wonder if I don't automatically give an extra star to anything audio if the narrator is halfway decent. Am I that lazy that the idea of not turning a page gains an entire star? Oh well...

This is the grand finale of the Velvet saga. The h, Elizabeth Chatworth, is the sister of the series' villain, Roger Chatworth. She's paired up with the youngest Montgomery brother, Miles.

Elizabeth is one of my favorite heroines of the series. She's pretty mature for 18 and doesn't do too many massively stupid things. She has emotional scars from living with her oldest brother, Edmund. Edmund pretty much screwed up the entire family. Elizabeth was terrified of men because of him, Brian was literally crippled because of him, and Roger was closed-off and bitter due to spending most of his life trying to protect the younger siblings from Edmund's crazy. That pretty much became his reason for living and once the younger siblings started having an opinion and wanting a life, he flipped.

I liked Miles, but couldn't help having a problem with his age. He was only 20. I cannot take a H that young too seriously, especially since he's a infamous womanizer. Once they get in their 30s I can buy that maybe that type has sown all their wild oats and is ready to settle down, but at 20???

The love story was sweet with no big betrayals, aside from Miles stubborn, jackass behavior in the last part. At least these men are consistent about having no common sense if they get jealous or think their pride has been insulted.

I think my favorite part of this was just catching up with the characters from the first 3 books and seeing them all again.

I did have some issues with Roger's story in this. Ironically, I had hoped we'd have a redemption storyline and now I'm whining about the fact that we did. I never felt Roger was irredeemable even after what he did in book 2. It all came back to him and then some with the events of book 3. Anyway, my problem was how it panned out in the end (view spoiler)[ I wanted to see Roger redeemed, but the whole buddy buddy thing with Miles in the end was beyond absurd. The most I ever expected and wanted of the Montgomerys was for them to tolerate Roger's existence because a) they don't want to continue the costly feud and b) out of respect for Elizabeth. I could think of a half dozen different ways his redemption story could have played out and been more emotionally satisfying and not the fluff it ended up being. The redemption should have been more sober with no side love story for Roger. I think it was a bit soon to give the guy his HEA, to say the least. (hide spoiler)]